FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2003

BRING YOUR CAMERAS - it’s Training Day at McDonald’s
It is Training Day at McDonald’s for the local school board and all media are invited to join in the excitement!

On Monday, March 17th at 11:00 a.m. at McDonald’s Restaurant on North Front Street, you are invited to tag along for the advance training day as Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, Director of Education Larry Langdon, Board Chair Judy Edgar, Food for Learning Chair Marg Thompson and local McDonald’s owners begin McDonald’s Training 101.

This group will need the training as they climb behind the counter on Friday March 21st to work at McDonald’s in support of Food for Learning (backgrounder attached). We invite all media to be on hand for great photo opportunities and interviews as the team prepares for Friday, March 21st special event.

The Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board have planned an event as a way to say Thank you to area McDonald’s Restaurants and their customers for supporting their Food for Learning initiative. Every Friday morning when you purchase a coffee you are supporting Breakfast for Learning Programs across the province.

On Friday March 21, 2003 representatives from Food for Learning as well as principals, vice- principals, teachers, non-teaching staff and program volunteers from the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board will join McDonald’s staff at our five, regional locations in Belleville, Picton, and Trenton for breakfast. The team of volunteers will be serving coffee and greeting morning visitors as our way of saying Thank you to McDonald’s restaurants and their customers.

Please join us, on Monday March 17th at 11:00 a.m. for Training Day at McDonald’s on North Front.

For more information, contact:
Kellie Brace, Food for Learning Coordinator, 966-9491 x2232

Backgrounder on Breakfast for Learning
Breakfast for Learning is national program that was started in 1992 and is designed to provide proper nourishment for children attending school. The Breakfast for Learning program has helped serve over 140 million meals to children across Canada and also offers nutrition education/ information to children and their parents.

Research shows that many children do not receive the proper nutrition because of rushed or early mornings, bus traveling, as well as poverty. For those reasons 31% of elementary students and 62% of high school students do not eat a nutritious breakfast before school.

Breakfast for Learning programs were developed to address this need and to assist with nutritional awareness and the need for good nutrition in the learning process.

The Foundation is the only national, non-profit organization solely dedicated to supporting child nutrition in Canada.